On this day fifty-two years ago, the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision granted women the right to abortion — the right to control their own bodies and make their own health decisions.
That ruling stood as established legal precedent for fifty years.
Two and a half years ago, on June 24, 2022, in its Dobbs decision, Donald Trump’s deliberately selected ultraconservative majority on the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Remember Roe v. Wade
Keep church and state separate
The beginning of the end for SCOTUS, which rapidly turned into a group of totally unethical, despicable people.
I’d like to think its days are numbered. But those Supreme Court justices are appointed for life, per the Constitution. LIFE! One or two of them are probably still ethical and and conscientious but they are now a minority.
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johnthecoo… As I recall, (please correct me if I am wrong) the Roe vs Wade decision was removed from Federal Law to STATES jurisdiction so that Federal funds would not pay for a personal medical decision when the mother’s life is not in danger. Please remind me W-H-Y- Roe vs Wade was necessary in the first place. And please, I am not trying to be disrespectful here.
In the Roe decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution’s implied right to privacy (in the 14th Amendment) protected a woman’s right to privacy in her medical decisions. Fifty years later a different Supreme Court, in the Dobbs decision, ruled that abortion was not protected by the Constitution and therefore not federally protected. That meant that once again each state could make its own abortion laws.
Roe had nothing to do with who paid for an abortion. It was about whether abortion was legal at all.
Neither Roe nor Dobbs involved the issue of federal funding. There were several separate cases after Roe that addressed federal funding for abortion.
The Roe case was filed because a woman (Roe was a pseudonym assigned by the court) in Texas wanted an abortion, a medical procedure, and Texas law prohibited abortions. She filed suit and her case eventually was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a very important case because it affected the rights of all women in the US to make their own medical decisions re abortion.
Personally, I think it’s a medical procedure that, when a woman and her doctor decide it’s necessary, should be legal and private. If you don’t believe in abortion or if your religion prohibits it, just don’t get one. But it doesn’t entitle you to impose your belief on anyone else. Abortion is a medical procedure that should be each woman’s personal, private choice, just like any other medical decision.
Damn fine response, Colorado !!!
Thank you. I did spend a fair amount of time making sure it was accurate and trying to answer John’s questions.
johnthecook…Thank You for your timely reply and your answer to my question. I do believe that abortion poses a real ethical and moral Delima that should not be taken lightly. I am now 74 years old, and I can’t tell you how many times I have heard talk about women who wanted an abortion, supported by the man who was also responsible, and the talk was all about getting rid of the problem like it was a headache or a stomachache or a bad hangover.
I really like your comment “when a woman and her doctor decide it’s necessary…” Necessary as being defined Physically, mentally, and or phycological?
I assure you abortion is not lightly undertaken by any woman. But their reasons are not ours to know. They are between each woman and her doctor, confidential, as all health/medical decisions are supposed to be. If abortion poses too great a moral or ethical dilemma for you, you probably shouldn’t have an abortion. But you’ve no right to impose your beliefs on her. You’ve no right to even know of her decision.
Hearing “talk” means less than nothing. Educate yourself. Consult reputable sources. Learn reproductive biology.
See my post “This is what early abortion looks like.”
johnthecook…I did see your post of what “some early abortions ” are all about, but certainly not what one looks like when a “heartbeat” is present in the baby. I would like to think I have educated myself by consulting with reputable moral and ethical sources.
I thank you for engaging me in this conversation. and will close this one out for me, acknowledging your right to have the last word. I do like your forum. V/R johnthecook.